Re: telnet problems with Debian woody
Curtis Hogg wrote:
>
> A friend of mine (as am I) is running Debian 2.1 that has been
> dist-upgraded to woody, and while he can telnet into my machine just fine,
> I cannot telnet into his, the error received states-
>
> telnetd: getpty: permission denied
>
> the permissions on his ptys and ttys and so on are the same as mine. What
> do I need to do to fix this problem? TIA
>
Changing "telnetd.telnetd" with "root.root" in the telnet line in
"/etc/inetd.conf" solved this
problem on my box. Do not ask me why! I even do not know further
implications
of this change, but it worked for me.
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